[DYSPHAGIA] blue dye causing deaths?

[eripley@yahoo.com (Irene Campbell-Taylor)]

See my other message.
Irene.
--- "Neary, Mary Ann" <MaryAnn.Neary@uhn.on.ca> wrote:
> What about just plain old blue food dye as opposed
> to Evans blue?
> 
> Mary Ann Neary
> 
> Mary Ann Neary, M.Sc.
> Manager, Rehabilitation Services
> Toronto Western Hospital - University Health Network
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Irene Campbell-Taylor
> [SMTP:eripley@yahoo.com]
> > Sent:	October 5, 2000 12:32 PM
> > To:	Bonnie Heintskill
> > Cc:	dysphagia@medonline.com
> > Subject:	Re: [DYSPHAGIA] blue dye causing deaths?
> > 
> > Thank you for passing this on, Bonnie. There are
> other
> > reasons for avoiding Evans blue, among them
> allergy
> > and mistakes re ocult blood in stool. That's why
> the
> > usual recommendation for coloring enteral feeds is
> to
> > add red food coloring - no, it doesn't look
> anything
> > like blood or any other bodily excreta you can
> think
> > of, unlike blue dye that can turn greenish and be
> > confused with infected sputum, pus etc. Try it.
> Put
> > some red food coloring into some Ensure and watch
> it
> > turn to something like Pepto Bismol or strawberry
> > pudding, depending on how much you add. There's no
> > mistaking it, in my experience. Anyone use it
> > regularly?
> > Irene.
> > 
> > 
> > =====
> > Irene Campbell-Taylor, PhD
> > Clinical Neuroscientist
> > 
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> later, to be found out.
> > Oscar Wilde.
> > 
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Irene Campbell-Taylor, PhD
Clinical Neuroscientist

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